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 Posted: Thu 3:02, 01 Aug 2013 Post subject: On Wikipedia 'the author' is distributed |
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fill op-ed column inches, who sits at what tables.Part of the beauty of Wikipedia is the hope that through its openness and its anonymity it could democratize the process of how knowledge gets built and organized. Last year The Awl published an essay "Wikipedia and the Death of the Expert,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," in which Maria Bustillos argued, "Wikipedia, along with other crowd-sourced resources, is wreaking a certain amount of McLuhanesque havoc on conventional notions of 'authority,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],' 'authorship,' and even 'knowledge.' " Online, the crowd was knocking the individual off its throne as the arbiter of information. As Bustillos quoted Clay Shirky,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], "On Wikipedia 'the author' is distributed,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and this fact is indigestible to current models of thinking."But,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], of course,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], this kind of collaboration doesn't itself imply the absence of expertise. Experts can, after all, collaborate together. And Wikipedia certainly benefits from academics with specialized knowledge developing and patrolling articles they care about
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